The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-07-07
Oh, for o closer walk with God,
A calm and Heavenly frame.
A light TO shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb.

I am sure that there are some here who
at some time have been hit by the Cos pei
arrow. You felt the wound Of that con.
viction, and you plunged into the world
deeper, just as the stag, when the hounds
are after it, plunges into Scroon lake
expecting in that way to escape. Jesus
Christ is on your t. ack to-day, impeni-
tent man, not in wrath, but in mercy.
Oh, We chased and painting souls here is
the stream OF Gods mercy and salvation,
where you may cool your thirst Stop
that chase of sin to-day. By the red
fountain that leaped from the heart of my
Lord, beg you stor There is mercy for
you-mercy that pardO s.; mercy that
heals; everlasting mercy. Is there in all
this house any one who can refuse the
offer that comes from the heart Of the
dying son of Godl
There is forest in Germany, a place
they cali the Deer leap''-two crags
about eighteen yards apart between a
fearful chasm This is called the "Dae r
lean" because once hunter was on the
track Of deer; 1t came to one of these
crags; there was no escape for it from
the pursuit OF the hunter, and in utter des.
pair it gathered itself up, and in the death
agony attempted to jump across. or
course It fell, and was dashed to death on
the rocks far beneath. Here is a path to
heaven. 1t is plain; it Is safe Jesus
marks 1t out for every man to walk in.
But here is a man who SAYS:
II won't walk in that path; will take
my own way"
He comes on up until he confronts the
chasm that divides his soul from heaven.
Now hts last hour has come, and he re-
solves that he will leap that chasm, from
the heights of earth to the heights of
heaven. Stand back now and give him
full swing, for no soul ever did that sue
cessfully. Let him try. Jump, jump!
He misses the mark and goes down, depth
below depth, "iestrCyed without rem.
edy" Men! angelsi devilsl what shall
we call that place Ct awful catastrophe ?
Let i. be known for ever as The Sinner .
Death Leap"
1t is SAID that when Charlemagne's host
was overpowered by three armies f the
Saracens in the Pass Of Ron cesvalles, his
warrior, Roland, in terrible earnestness,
seized a trumpet, and blew it with such
terrific strength that the opposing army
reeled back with terror; but at the third
blast Of the trumpet it broke in two.
SEQ your soul fiercely assaulted by all
the powers Of earth land hell. put the
mightier trumpet of the gospel to my
lips, and I blow it three times.
Blast the frst-"W hosoever will, let
him come"
Blast the second-"Seek we the Lord
while he may be found"
Elast the third-"Now ia the accepted
time; now is the day Of salvation"
Does not the host of your sins fall bac ok
But the trumpet does not, Xix, that of Ro-
land, break in two. As 1t was handed
down to us from the lips of our fathers
we hand it down 10 the lips of our chill
dren, and tell them to sound it when they
are dead, that all the generations of mer
may know that our God is a pardoninl
Cod, a sympathetic God, loving God
and that more to him than the anthems O.
heaven, more to him than the throne OF
| which he sits, more to hin
than are the temples of celestia
| worship, is the joy Of seeing
the wanderer putting his hand on the
| door-latch of his fathers house. Hear it
| all ye natonsi Bread for the worst hun.
| ger Medicine for the worst sickness
| Light for the thickest darkness Harbol
from the worst storm.
DIR. Prime, in his book Of wonderful in
terest, entitled "ArOund the World" de
scribes a tomb in India of marvelou.
architecture. Twenty thousand mer
were twenty-five years in erecting that
and the building, around it, Standing a
that tomb, if you speak or sing, after you
| have ceased you hear the echo cominG
| from a height of $50 feet. 1t is not lik,
| other echoes. The sound is drawn out in
| the sweet prolengation, as though In
angels of God were chanting on the wing
| How many souls here today, in thu
tomb of sin, will lift up the voice of peni
tense and pra yerl If now they would or.
unto God, the echo would drop from afai
not struck from the marble cupola of al
earthly mausoleum, but sounding bacl
from the warm heart of angels, fyin:
with the news; for there is Joy among thu
angels of God over one sinner that re
penteth.